NEW Y.M.C.A. SECRETARY

Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6543, 27 February 1928, Page 6

NEW Y.M.C.A. SECRETARY

818. ALFRED F. KAUFMANN The president of the Palmerston North Y.M.G.A. (Mr Jas. Wallace) received a cable from Sydney on Saturday, that Mr Alfred P. Kaufmann had accepted the position of General Secretary for Palmerston North Y.M.C.A., for which position the Board had unanimously chosen him out of forty applicants, at their meeting on Friday last. Mr, Kaufmann will take up his duties here about the middle of March. He is quite a young man and has had made a name for himself as an organiser of work amongst boys in Melbourne and Sydney. One of the leading laymen of tho Anglican Church in Melbourne says that he has found him most diligent and earnestly devoted to the influencing of young men to their manly and moral benefit; his personality winning their affection and confidence in a marked degree. In the position of sub-warden of the St. Nicholas Home for Boys at Glenroy, near Melbourne, for the last two years, a position for which ho was selected by the Archbishop of Melbourne, and a position which he accepted at a • lower salary that that which he had been receiving in a commercial house in Sydney t he had full control of CO boys, was scoutmaster too, and the camps, sport and gymnasium were all in his hands. He was very successful with a large bible class which he organised in connection with St. Stephens, Richmond, where he had a class of anything up to ioO, and in connection with which ho organised a men’s association, which was the most influential in the parish. It embraced a largo gymnasium, debating society, badminton club, dramatic society, athletic club and other branches. Mr. Kaufmann also swims, plays tennis, and in 1925 won a New South Wales walking championship. The board are to be congratulated on securing a man of tho calibre of Mr Kaufmann to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr. P. Keesing, who is leaving in the first week in March.